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Australian Shadows Awards
The Australian Shadows Awards are annual literary awards established by the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) in 2005 to honour the best published works of horror fiction written or edited by an Australian/New Zealand/Oceania resident in the previous calendar year. Awards criteria and history Works are judged on their overall effect within the horror genre based on the author's skill, delivery, and the work's lasting resonance. Each year, a director is appointed by the AHWA to administer the award. Shortlists for each category are determined by a panel of judges, and the shortlisted nominees are announced in March/April every year. From 2005 to 2008, the Australian Shadows Award evaluated novels, anthologies, and short stories against each other in a single category. In 2009, the award was expanded into three categories: Short Fiction, Long Fiction, and Edited Publication. From 2011, the award was restructured to consist of five categories: Novel; Long Fiction (n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Fiction
Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, or disgust. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror, which is in the realm of speculative fiction. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for larger fears of a society. Prevalent elements of the genre include ghosts, demons, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, the Devil, witches, monsters, extraterrestrials, dystopian and post-apocalyptic worlds, serial killers, cannibalism, cults, dark magic, satanism, the macabre, gore and torture. History Before 1000 The horror genre has ancient origins, with roots in folklore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Jiraiya Cummings
Shane Jiraiya Cummings (born 24 April 1974) is an Australian horror and fantasy author and editor. He lives in Sydney with his partner Angela Challis. Cummings is best known as a short story writer. He has had more than 100 short stories published in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, and Asia.Shane Jiraiya Cummings Short Stories. Retrieved 02-05-2015. As of 2015, he has written 12 books and edited 10 genre fiction magazines and anthologies, including the bestselling '' Rage Against the Night''.Shane Jiraiya Cummings Books. Retri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eidolon Publications
Eidolon Publications was a small press publisher based in North Perth, Western Australia. The company previously published the speculative fiction magazine ''Eidolon'' which ran from 1990 to 2000 and published books under the name of Eidolon Books. History Eidolon Publications begun in 1990 and started publishing the ''Eidolon'' magazine. In 1992 the company expanded into non-magazine publishing, releasing Terry Dowling's "The Mars You Have in Me" as a chapbook. In 1996 Eidolon begun a book-line with Robin Pen's ''The Secret Life of Rubber-Suit Monsters''. They then signed with HarperCollins to edit ''The Year's best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy'' anthology series which began in 1997. In 2000 Eidolon put their magazine on hiatus but continued to accept submissions. In 2002 an editorial committee attempted to restart the magazine but it proved unsuccessful. The company published Terry Dowling's '' Blackwater Days'' which won the 2001 Ditmar Award for best collected work an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Biancotti
Deborah Biancotti is an Australian writer of speculative fiction. Biography Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in ''Altair (magazine), Altair'' and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent. Biancotti's fifth short story, "King of All and the Metal Sentinel" was published in 2002 and won the 2003 Ditmar Award for best Australian short fiction. In 2007 her story "A Scar for Leida" won the Aurealis Award for best young-adult short story. Biancotti is now based in Sydney. Awards and nominations Bibliography Short fiction *"The First and Final Game" (2000) in ''Altair (magazine), Altair #6/7 (ed. Robert N. Stephenson, Jim Deed, Andrew Collings) *"All the Monochrome Butterflies" (2001) in ''Mitch?2: Tarts of the New Millennium'' *"Fixing the Glitch" (2001) in ''Mitch?3: Hacks to the Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Books
Sean Wallace (born January 1, 1976) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologist, editor, and publisher best known for founding the publishing house Prime Books and for co-editing three magazines, ''Clarkesworld Magazine'', ''The Dark Magazine'', and '' Fantasy Magazine''. He has been nominated a number of times by both the Hugo Awards and the World Fantasy Awards, won three Hugo Awards and two World Fantasy Awards, and has served as a World Fantasy Award judge. Career Wallace began publishing fiction in 1997, when he launched Cosmos Books, with Philip J. Harbottle, and released ''Fantasy Annual'', a paperback magazine of British authors including E.C. Tubb, John Russell Fearn, and Sydney Bounds. In 1999, the Cosmos Books name was licensed to Wildside Press and output greatly increased, expanding with American and Australian authors. He also became a freelance editor for Wildside Press, working from Ohio. In mid-2001, Wallace stepped in to assist an ailing co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Through Soft Air
''Through Soft Air'' is the first short story collection from Australian speculative fiction writer Lee Battersby. Printed in 2006, it was published by US Publisher Prime Books. Stories The collection contains the following stories: * ''Father Muerte & the Theft'' * ''Silk'' * ''Carrying the God'' * ''Pass the Parcel'' * ''Through the Window Merrilee Dances'' * ''Elyse'' (previously unpublished) * ''The Divergence Tree'' * ''Jaracara's Kiss'' (previously unpublished) * ''The Hobbyist'' * ''Mikal'' (previously unpublished) * ''Letters to Josie'' * ''A Stone to Mark My Passing'' * ''Vortle'' * ''Ecdysis'' * ''A Very Good Lawyer'' * ''Goodfellow'' * ''Stalag Hollywood'' (previously unpublished) * ''Brillig'' * ''His Calliope''(previously unpublished) * ''Father Renoir's Hands'' (previously unpublished) * ''Through Soft Air'' * ''Dark Ages'' (previously unpublished) * ''Tales of Nireym'' * ''Father Muerte & the Rain'' * ''Pater Familias'' The cover art is by Gary Nurrish. See al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Books
An alphabet book is a type of children's book giving basic instruction in an alphabet. Intended for young children, alphabet books commonly use pictures, simple language and alliteration to aid language learning. Alphabet books are published in several languages, and some distinguish the capitals and lower case letters in a given alphabet. Some alphabet books are intended for older audiences, using the simplicity of the genre as a device to convey humor or other concepts. Purposes Alphabet books introduce the sounds and letters of an ordered alphabet. As elementary educational tools, Alphabet books provide opportunities for: #Developing conversations and proficiency in oral language #Increasing phonemic awareness #Teaching phonics #Making text connections (Activating prior knowledge) #Predicting (Text talk) #Building vocabulary #Inferencing / drawing conclusions #Sequencing #Identifying elements of story structure #Recognizing point of view #Visualizing setting (Time, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Elliott
Will Elliott (born 1979) is an Australian horror fiction, horror and fantasy literature, fantasy writer living in Brisbane, Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland. He currently tutors at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Profile Elliott dropped out of a law degree at the age of 20 when he developed schizophrenia. His first novel, ''The Pilo Family Circus,'' concerns a young man who struggles with an alter ego who appears when he dons clown face paint; Elliott has said the novel is not autobiographical. ''The Pilo Family Circus'' was published in Australia in 2006 after winning the inaugural ABC Fiction Award (sponsored by ABC Books). The novel went on to win the Aurealis Award (co-winner: Best Horror novel, plus the Golden Aurealis Award),Aurealis Awards winners archive Retrieved 16 September 2007. the Australian Shadow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pilo Family Circus
''The Pilo Family Circus'' is a 2006 horror novel by Will Elliott. Plot It follows the story of Jamie, who, after a random incident of nearly hitting a clown with his car, finds himself being stalked by three sadistic clowns. Background ''The Pilo Family Circus'' was first published in Australia in October 2006 by ABC Books in trade paperback format after winning the inaugural ABC Fiction Award. It has also been released in an audio edition by ABC Audio, in 2007 it was released in the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, Sweden, Spain, Russia, and in 2009 it was released in the United States. ''The Pilo Family Circus'' won the 2006 Aurealis Award for best horror novel and the Golden Aurealis Award for best novel. It also won 2007 Ditmar Award for best novel, the 2006 Australian Shadows Award, the ''Sydney Morning Herald's'' "Best Young Novelist Award" for 2007 and was a short-list nominee for the 2007 International Horror Guild Award The International Horror Guild Award (al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Hood
Robert Maxwell Hood (born 24 July 1951) is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers, although his work frequently crosses genre boundaries into science fiction, fantasy and crime. He has published five young adult novels, four collections of his short fiction, an adult epic fantasy novel, fifteen children's books and over 120 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas. He has also written plays, academic articles and poetry and co-edited anthologies of horror and crime. He has won seven Ditmars out of twenty nominations, and been nominated for six Aurealis Awards. Biography Hood was born in 1951 in Parramatta, New South Wales. At the age of nine he moved with his family to Collaroy Plateau on the northern beaches of Sydney.Blackmore, Leigh. "Profile of Robert Hood", ''Mantichore 14'', pg. 9 (2 August 2009); accessed 26 May 2017. His initial experiments in writing began in primary school, where he produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaaron Warren
Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels. She is the author of the short story collections ''Through Splintered Walls'', ''The Grinding House'', and ''Dead Sea Fruit''. Her short stories have won Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards and Aurealis Awards. Retrieved 17 February 2008. Her four novels, are '' Slights'', ''Walking the Tree'' and ''Mistification'' (published by Angry Robot Books) and ''The Grief Hole'' (published by IFWG). Kaaron was Special Guest at the 2013 Australian National Science Fiction Convention. Bibliography Novels * ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grinding House
''The Grinding House'' is a collection of short stories by Kaaron Warren published in 2005 by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. The collection was edited by Donna Maree Hanson. Warren won the 2006 Fiction ACT Writers and Publishers Award for ''The Grinding House''.See The Chronicle, 12 December 2006 Stories The collection contains the following stories: * "Fresh Young Widow" * "The Glass Woman" * "The Blue Stream" * "The Hanging People" * "Smoko" * "A-Positive" * "The Missing Children" * "Al's Iso Bar" * "The Left Behind" * "Tiger Kill" * "The Wrong Seat" * "Skin Holes" * "The Sameness of Birthdays" * "The Speaker of Heaven" * "The Smell of Mice" * "The Grinding House" * "Survival of the Last" * "Salamander" * "Working for the God of the Love of Money" The cover art is by Robyn Evans. * See also * ''Nor of human'' * ''Machinations: An Anthology of Ingenious Designs'' * ''Elsewhere (Anthology), Elsewhere'' * ''Encounters (anthology), Encounters'' * ''The Outcast ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
